A Crime to Fit the Punishment

This fascinating making-of documentary investigates the controversy and political atmosphere surrounding the production of Salt of the Earth, movingly chronicling the filmmakers' defiance of the blacklist. (BAM) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

• Stephen MackWriter
• L.H. WhittemoreWriter
• Barbara MossWriter
• Susan ShattuckWriter
• Stephen MackDirector
• Barbara MossDirector

• Lee GrantNarrator
• Paul JarricoSelf
• Clinton JencksSelf
• Virginia JencksSelf
• Charles ColemanSelf
• Henrietta WilliamsSelf
• Michael Wilson(Voice)
• Sonja Dahl BibermanSelf
• Juan ChacónSelf
• Jules SchwerinSelf
• Ángela SánchezSelf
• Sol KaplanSelf